You're reading a single cultural interpretation of a universal myth. The Christ story itself echoes the eternal pattern: the descent of consciousness into matter, the hero's journey through suffering, death, and rebirth. This isn't unique to Christianity—it's Osiris, Dionysus, Persephone returning from the underworld.

These aren't competing claims of the truth—they're the same story wearing different cultural masks. The "catastrophe requiring a Redeemer" is the descent into duality. The Redeemer is the awakening consciousness within us, clothed in whatever symbols a culture needs.

You see Christ reversing the fall. I see Christ completing it—showing us that the journey through death leads to resurrection, that consciousness must descend into matter to know itself, then return transformed. "I and the Father are one" isn't theology—it's the recognition Eden never offered: the conscious realization of unity after experiencing separation.

The cross isn't reversing the serpent's gift. It's fulfilling it. Showing us that the descent was never permanent exile—it was always the outward arc of a journey home.

The symbols may change, but the journey doesn't.